My brother at 14
sat
on the kitchen
stool
stock between his
knees
played with the
trigger
and put a hole in
the ceiling
When he was 18
and in the Army in
Germany,
the house burned
down
around that hole
The hole didn’t
burn
It’s all I have
left
of that childhood
home
a hole
©2021 Muriel Thumm
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